61’ Cheoy Lee Raised Pilothouse
This vessel was outfitted in San Diego during the winter of 2003. Phantom Marine consulted with the owner during the previous summer of 2002. After designing a system based on the owners needs, we shipped the transducers overseas for installation at the factory. At that time, we also provided the yard with drawings of all the equipment so that the dash could be built to house everything.
The vessel is outfitted with a completely redundant Furuno NavNet radar system. As the owner anticipates long-range cruising, he wanted to have two fully-independent systems. The two 10.4” color LCD displays in the pilothouse can operate with either of the two 48” scanners on the hardtop. There is also a 600-Watt dual-frequency Fishfinder integrated into the system.
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The pilothouse also has two 15” LCD monitors installed. One monitor is used for displaying information from the owner’s laptop, while the other is used as a satellite television display. Of course, the video can be “flip-flopped” onto either screen. The image from the laptop is also amplified and ran below to the 42” plasma screen in the salon, and the 20” LCD television in the Master Stateroom. This enables anyone on-board to call up the Nobletec chart plotting system and track the vessels progress in real-time on a NOAA chart.
The Simrad autopilot is capable of taking input from a number of navigational devices. Via a multi-point switch, the operator can steer from either of the two GP-36 receivers, either of the two NavNet displays, and of course the laptop. Having five sources to select from, this again offers complete redundancy.
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The closed-circuit camera system allows the owner to view the engine room and/or aft-cockpit while sitting in the wheelhouse, as well as on any of the on-board televisions.
As equipped, this vessel is ready to take the owner and his family wherever their plans take them. When long-range is on the plans, there is no substitute for redundancy.